Sysprepping win8 from hyper-v

Banzai_Joe · 25 Feb 2013 at 13:54

Hi all,

does anyone know if a hyper-v guest running win8 can be sysprepped with /generalise /OOBE onto physical hardware?

I want to test certain software out on win8, so was thinking once i'm happy with it, i'll sysprep it and then load it onto my desktop.

I don't have any spare hardware to test it on, so it will go onto ws2008r2 hyper-v .

Any thoughts?

Banzai_Joe · 26 Feb 2013 at 11:51

paradigm said:
Of course it will work, that's kind of the point of /generalize

I was more concerned that i don't have a proper technician/reference machine, as it's all virtual.
I've never actually syprepped before anyway, so any bullet pointers in order would be appreciated.

Banzai_Joe · 28 Feb 2013 at 08:28

Thanks kirbz,
any pointers on how you do/did it please?

Banzai_Joe · 6 Mar 2013 at 08:50

Thanks jessica, most helpful information.

Thanks again to you too kirbz.

Banzai_Joe · 6 Mar 2013 at 09:29

Ok, i'm completely ******* lost now.
Surely there's an idiots guide to syprepping windows 8 out there. most of what i've found seems to assume prior knowlegde of how to create winPE etc.
Well....i don't have that knowledge....that's why i want to learn goddammit.

Jessica the info you linked, having scanned it doesn't really help me, but thanks anyway.

I only want to test out sysprepping an existing hyper-v guest onto:
a) another hyper-v
b) a physical computer

as a single instance. I wont be uding WDS or SCCM or anything like that.

I can't seem to find a single tut on how to do this from start to finish for windows 8.

People say "but it almost the same at win 7". However imagex is now replaced with DISM, i'm not really familiar with either.

GGGrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!! it's very frustrating.

Banzai_Joe · 6 Mar 2013 at 09:32

Ooo err.......double post.
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